Many Americans do not recognize the descent into authoritarianism that our nation is currently undergoing. The purpose of this project is to gather, create and disseminate materials designed to raise Americans’ understanding of authoritarianism.
Purpose
Develop materials for educating the American populace about authoritarianism and what can be done to protect American democracy.
Initiative
This initiative will seek to develop materials to be disseminated to the American people about authoritarianism and what can be done to combat it.
Specifically, the work will focus on distilling information to be disseminated in mass media formats. This will include:
- Flyers that can be distributed
- Information that can be distributed via social media
- Information that can be distributed through personal email channels
Volunteers are needed to gather, create and disseminate materials designed to raise Americans’ understanding of authoritarianism.
Foundational Works
The work of this group will be informed by…
- The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025 (https://www.authoritarianplaybook2025.org)
- “How to Lose a Country: The Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship” by Ece Temelkuran
- “Facism: A Warning” by Madeleine Albright
- “”The 3.5% Rule” as published in Wikipedia
- “So You Want to Be a Dissident?” by Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer
Key Tasks and Related Skills
Volunteers with any of the following skills are encouraged to respond via email:
- Gathering existing memes from social media sites.
- Searching and gathering materials relating to the mission via the internet
- Creating written documents distilling the information
- Creating written documents promoting methods for resisting authoritarianism
Training is available for each of the above aspects for supporting the Meme Repository.
Email contact: info@fivefriends.org